L2/98-389R Consent docket re WG2 Resolutions at its Meeting #35 as amended For the complete text of Resolutions of WG2 Meeting #35, see L2/98-306R. RESOLUTION M35.4 (PDAM-24 on Thaana): Unanimous to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of FPDAM-24 with assistance from Ballot document is L2/98-323 Ireland and US both recommended reordering of characters if expert information becomes available. Accepted in principle by WG2. UTC should concur. The UTC concurs in principle with reordering of Thaana characters should expert information become available before the end of the FPDAM ballot period. RESOLUTION M35.5 (PDAM-25 on Khmer): Unanimous to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of FPDAM-25 with assistance from Ballot document is L2/98-324 US comments were accepted, including U+17C7 and U+17C8 as spacing combining characters. Name changes proposed by Ireland and Japan were accepted. The UTC accepts the designation of the characters encoded at U+17C7and U+17C8 as spacing combining characters and the name changes specified in Resolution M35.5. RESOLUTION M35.1 (FPDAM-18 on Symbols and Other characters including EURO): Unanimous WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1789R2, as amended by N1875 (defect report), and instructs its project editor to prepare the final text of DAM-18 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates. Ballot document is L2/98-318 US comment recommended removal of U+237C SQUARE WAVE. US and Unicode Consortium submitted defect report to WG2 recommending change of code point and name for REVERSED QUESTION MARK to avoid confusion with U+061f, ARABIC QUESTION MARK. Code point for APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD is different from our original acceptance (Override). 1
2 The UTC accepts with the following changes specified in WG2 Resolution M35.1: 1. removal of U+237C SQUARE WAVE 2. moving the REVERSED QUESTION MARK from U+2047 to U+2426, and changing its name to SYMBOL FOR SUBSTITUTE FORM TWO 3. encoding of APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD at U+2395. RESOLUTION M35.3 (PDAM-22 on Keyboard Symbols): Unanimous WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1816R, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final text of FPDAM-22 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing Ballot document is L2/98-320 Characters were repositioned and/or renamed on the basis of comments from the US and Ireland. The UTC accepts the changes in names and code values specified in WG2 Resolution M35.3. RESOLUTION M35.6 (FPDAM-27 on Syriac): Unanimous to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of DAM-27 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates. Ballot document is L2/98-322 US comments recommended that MADDAH ABOVE, HAMZA ABOVE and HAMZA BELOW be encoded in the Basic Arabic block. Ireland and UK also recommended this change. US and Ireland also noted some corrections for names. The UTC accepts the changes in names and character positions specified in WG2 Resolution M35.6. RESOLUTION M35.8 (FPDAM-23 on Bopomofo Extended and other characters): Unanimous WG 2 instructs its project editor to prepare the final disposition of comments based on agreements at meeting 35, and the final text of DAM-23 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates. Ballot document is L2/98-321 By accepting these name changes, the UTC revokes acceptance of the names EXTENDED BOPOMOFO YIN DEPARTING and EXTENDED BOPOMOFO YANG DEPARTING in L2/98-090 [Motion #76-M5]. (Override) The UTC accepts the changes in names specified in WG2 Resolution M35.8. 2
3 RESOLUTION M35.11 (Mongolian script): Unanimous WG 2 accepts the 155 characters, their shapes, and their names in document N 1878, and assigns them to code positions in the range 1800 to 18AF, and 3 following additional characters in the General Punctuation Block: 202F NARROW NO BREAK SPACE 2048 QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK 2049 EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK in the BMP. WG 2 further instructs its editor to: create a new sub division proposal, with the following target dates:wd 1998-09, FPDAM 1998-10, FDAM 1999-04 and AM 1999-07 prepare registration request and FPDAM text, with assistance from China, Mongolia, and the contributing editor (for the three additional characters) Ballot document is L2/98-327 New proposal. WG2 document N1878 is L2/98-369 The UTC accepts the 155 Mongolian script characters, and their shapes, names, and code positions in the range 1800 to 18AF. In addition, the UTC accepts the following 3 characters in the General Punctuation Block: 202F NARROW NO BREAK SPACE 2048 QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK 2049 EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK RESOLUTION M35.12 (Additional Latin and other characters): Ireland, Canada, Finland, Greece, China, Poland, Mongolia, Germany, US, Japan and UK - Approve; The Netherlands Abstained WG 2 accepts the 66 additional Latin and other characters, their code positions and names as listed in document N1884R2, and their shapes (from the appropriate source documents), for encoding in the BMP. WG 2 further instructs its editor to: create a new sub division proposal, with the following target dates:wd 1998-09, FPDAM 1998-10, FDAM 1999-04 and AM 1999-07 prepare registration request and FPDAM text, with assistance from the contributing editor, and Ballot document is L2/98-329 Collection of characters from various sources. (See Appendix for summary) WG2 document N1884R2 is L2/98-372 The UTC accepts the 66 additional Latin and other characters except the SOFT SPACE, with names as listed in document N1884R2 and shapes derived from appropriate source documents, and concurs in their assigned code positions. RESOLUTION M35.13 (PDAM-14 on Yi script): Unanimous WG 2 instructs its project editor to prepare the disposition of comments based on the agreements at meeting 35 as summarized in N1890, and the final text of FPDAM-14 with assistance from China and the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing Ballot document is L2/98-333 3
4 US voted to disapprove PDAM 14 (Yi script and Yi radicals) WG2 document N1890 addresses Yi radicals as well as Yi script. The UTC accepts the changes in names and character positions specified in WG2 Resolution M35.13. RESOLUTION M35.14 (PDAM-26 on Myanmar / Burmese): Unanimous WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1883R2, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of FPDAM-26 with assistance from Ballot document is L2/98-325 There were major changes to the original PDAM: removal of some characters, moving of others, and renaming of the script and all its characters. WG2 document N1883R2 is L2/98-371 The UTC revokes its earlier acceptance of Burmese script [Motion #76-M3] in favor of the proposed encoding for Myanmar script in WG2 document N1883R2. RESOLUTION M35.16 (PDAM-28 - Ideographic Description Characters): Unanimous WG 2 accepts the 12 characters, their shapes, and their names in document N 1842R, and assigns them to code positions in the range 2FF0 to 2FFF in the BMP. WG 2 further instructs its editor to prepare the PDAM text, with assistance from China and the contributing editor, and forward these to SC 2 secretariat for further processing, Ballot document is L2/98-317 (Ideographic description characters) New proposal. The UTC accepts the 12 characters, their shapes and names as listed in document N1842R, and concurs in their assignment to code positions in the range 2FF0 to 2FFF. RESOLUTION M35.18 (PDAM on Tibetan Extension): Unanimous WG 2 accepts the 25 additional Tibetan characters, their shapes, and their names based on documents N 1756, N1864, and N1880 and the discussion at meeting 35 - and assigns them to code positions in the range 0F00 to 0FFF, in the BMP. WG 2 further instructs its editor to: create a new sub division proposal, with the following target dates:wd 1998-09, PDAM 1998-10, FPDAM 1999-04, FDAM 1999-08 and AM 1999-12 prepare registration request and PDAM text, with assistance from China, and the contributing editor Ballot document is L2/98-331 The proposal on Extended Tibetan was provisionally accepted by the UTC in July [Motion #77-M5]. Provisional acceptance recognized that changes might occur at the WG2 meeting. 4
5 The UTC accepts the additional 25 Tibetan characters, their shapes and names as determined at WG2 meeting #35, and their assignment to code positions in the range 0F00 to 0FFF. The following WG2 Resolution is included for information only: RESOLUTION M35.7 (FPDAM-17 on CJK Extension A): Unanimous WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1889, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final text of DAM-17 with assistance from the IRG editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing Ballot document is L2/98-334 US voted to approve PDAM consideration, with only comment that font must be supplied. Japan noted the need for updates to Annex T (unification rules) and Annex L (sources). Implication for Version 3.0. UK comments referred to ranges of I and I zones, but the definition of the A, I, O and R zones as concepts were eliminated later in the meeting. No UTC action needed. APPENDIX RESOLUTION M35.12 (Additional Latin and other characters) Summary From TC 46 standards and other sources (discussed at July 1998 meeting): Changes from L2 recommendations: Capital and small forms of Latin letter ou added Capital forms of Cyrillic letters for Sami added (evidence of existence was presented) Capital and small forms of Cyrillic e with diaeresis added Other additions (with source documents): Precomposed letters for Livonian [L2/98-375] Modifier letters double apostrophe [L2/98-295] and cross accent [L2/98-261] Binary completion characters [L2/98-357] from Mark Davis Mongolian tugrik (currency sign) [L2/98-360] IPA characters for disturbed speech [L2/98-299] SOFT SPACE [L2/98-373] Interlinear annotation characters [Draft UTR #12] 5